Major Virtual Reality Game Announcements Expected at E3 2014 Next Week, Road to VR Will Be on the Scene
Two years ago, a legendary programmer occupied an unassuming booth at the world's biggest gaming show. It was John Carmack from id Software telling anyone who'd listen that virtual reality was back and that the equally unassuming black box, an early...
News Bits: Loading Human Kickstarter Passes Goal, Announces Omni Support with 3 Days Left
The darling of virtual reality enthusiasts right now, Untold Games' Loading Human, is a first person adventure which is attempting to pave the way for compelling human interaction within virtual spaces. Its ambition we spoke about recently, as well...
News Bits: Virtuix Announce Omni Shipping Delay, Teases E3 News
The fantastically successful Virtuix Omni Kickstarter, the omni-directional treadmill, was one of the earlier VR related crowd funding hits. They attracted over 3000 backers and finished with a cool $1.1M, their original goal was just $150k.
Original backers who pledged...
Palmer Luckey on Why Building the Virtual Reality Metaverse is a Moral Imperative (video)
During a panel that I was fortunate to moderate at last week's SVVR Conference & Expo in Mountain View, California, EnterVR's Cris Miranda offered up a question from the audience. He asked Palmer Luckey to elaborate on previous statements that...
Exclusive: Meet Totoro and the Catbus in ‘My Neighbour Totoro VR – Bus Stop Scene’ Oculus Rift Demo (download)
The mind behind the Spirited Away VR – Boiler Room Scene has been toiling away, recreating another scene from a beloved Studio Ghibli film. This time it's the bus stop scene from My Neighbor Totoro (1988), and it's ready to...
News Bits: Oculus VR Hoover Up More Talent, Cass Everitt and Brian Hook Hired
I was quoted recently as saying "Oculus are like some crazy, out of control talent hoover!", in reference of course to their relentless drive to suck up the best and brightest in fields related (and in some cases, seemingly...
News Bits: Among The Sleep Ships, Receives Favourable Reviews
Among the Sleep is an ambitiously original game from Norwegian indie developer Krillbite Studio which walked very comfortably past it's original Kickstarter goal of $200,000 back in May of last year - eventually netting $248,358 in funds and unlocking...
News Bits: Samsung Partners with Oculus on New ‘Media Focussed’ VR Headset?
Rumours surrounding a new VR Headset from the electronics giant Samsung circulated recently, originally reported by Engadget. At the time, the angle was Samsung entering the market to compete with Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift. Now, the...
News Bits: Elite: Dangerous Enters Premium Beta Phase, Adds 10,000 More Players to it’s Universe
One of the most promising titles sporting Oculus Rift support to rise from a successful crowd funding campaign is the space trading and combat MMO Elite: Dangerous. Part of the Elite franchise, originally conceived and coded by gaming legends...
News Bits: RiftUP! Oculus Rift DK1 1080p Upgrade Begins Shipping, Early Recipients Report Issues
We covered the RiftUp! project in detail a little while ago. The project offers an in-place upgrade for the low resolution 1280x800 LCD panel and controller bringing the original developer kit (DK1) to a much more capable 1080p panel....